It’s called gravity dumb ass the world spins while we rotate around the sun

I think he means à la, like à la mode, or in the manner of “akin to” or “like.”

I saw a CNN report on the Flat Earth Society about 20 years ago.  At the time, they bosted 8000 members worldwide and attempted to prove that the Earth was flat by using surveying equipment on a dry lake bed.

And I’d swear that Hitler and Elvis were lurking in the background somewhere.

What are you saying?!?!  The FSM isn’t real!  But He Touched Me With His Noodly Appendage!  I myself recieved candy from a Pirate as a child!  I have seen the midget and the trees and the mountain!  It must be true!

And sorry about the triple dipping (is that even physically possible?) but I found a Flat-Earth discussion forum here: Flat Earth Forum, but I confess I haven’t really looked at it yet.

I think FES is a form of FSM. I don’t think they believe.

TAFKA- you went one Turtle further. You Swine.

Oh my god, I can’t beleive I forgot about the absolute best Flat Earth Model Ever – Discworld!

Charles K. Johnson was interviewed a few years before his death, and he was the nastiest sort of fundementalist Christian.  The sad thing was he and his wife lived in absolute poverty after their house burned down.  Think I linked through TalkOrigins about a year back. 

If Les’s little freind is serious then there is no way to convince him- anything he is shown will be CGI/fake etc.

The Bananas thing is a evolution thing- common ancestry etc- those nasty evilutionists say we all came from Bananas- the monket thing one step further.  Terry Pratchett spoofed this at one point with Ponder Stibbons telling the Archchancellor ‘I’ve proved that banans are a kind of fish, and the bunches are just shoals’

(PTerry- if you read this and say ‘No I didn’t’ Sorry!- may have been knocking around at the back of your mind though)

I heard that the last guy pushing this stuff ended up moving out into the California desert and building a house to live off the grid.  This was back in the late 70’s early 80’s though, so I don’t know what happened to him.

Aliens got him! What else?

Heh, I haven’t yet needed the little blue pills, but I see what you mean. 

As for the Flat Earth Forums Les, As I peruse them, I honestly can’t say I can tell if it’s a gag site that some people are falling for, or if it’s a real site.  There appears to be some true believers falling for it big time if it is a gag (which is absolutely no suprise).

They do link to some really crazy scientific experiments that supposedly prove their theory (by proving the earth’s surface is not curved over a short, 5 mile distance…the diagrams of the experiments are hilarious).